Global Financial Crisis The Ethical Issues [Paperback]

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that is unique in its underlying causes, its scope, and its wider social, political and economic implications. This volume explores some of the ethical issues that it has raised.Notes on Contributors Introduction; N.Dobos Global Financial Institutions, Ethics and Market Fundamentalism; S.Miller The Legitimacy of the Financial System and State Capitalism; N.Chomsky NeoliberalismIs This the End?; N.Dobos Ethical Investing in an Age of Excessive Materialistic Self-Interest; J.C.Harrington The Achilles Heel of Competitive/Adversarial; T.Pogge Financial Services Providers: Integrity Systems, Reputation, and the Triangle of Virtue; S.Miller Who Must Pay for the Damage of the Global Financial Crisis; M.Peterson & C.Barry IndexNOAM CHOMSKY Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJOHN C. HARRINGTON President and CEO of socially responsible investing and shareholder advocacy firm Harrington Investments IncSEUMAS MILLER Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University and the Australian National University (joint position)MATT PETERSON Post-graduate fellow in the Global Justice Program at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University